Good Cookies: Prompt and Fill Post, Round Two
Good Cookie, definition: 1. Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal; 2. Generation Kill fanworks created for YAGKYAS. Can include short (under 1000 words) ficlets, drabbles, drawables, mixtapes, fanart, whatever!
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If he were watching this on tv, Doc thinks, he'd be dead right now. The drinking game he's invented to keep himself from going completely fucking crazy while listening to the shit that comes out of Encino Man and Captain America's mouths would be downright suicidal if he had booze instead of the over-warm water from his canteen.
Encino Man reads the map wrong? Drink.
Captain America goes off on a tirade about how the enemy is firing on them when there's no goddamn gunshots to be heard? Drink.
Another higher up says something so moto it makes Doc want to jab his k-bar in his eye? Drink.
Brad fucking Colbert acts all fucking ninja? Drink. (Not that Doc can't appreciate the man's cool, but come on. Clint Eastwood doesn't have that kind of goddamn swagger, and that's just not right.)
Ray Person doesn't shut the hell up? Drink.
Godfather refers to himself in the third person? Double-drink. (Because if Doc were a civilian, he'd be downing all the goddamn booze to block that particular tic from his brain as quickly as possible.)
Eye-fucking all around the goddamn platoon. Drink. (Double if it's Fick and Colbert. For two guys with "kill-on-three" poker faces, they are transparent as shit sometimes.)
Reporter looks scared? Drink. (This one stops working after day four, and Doc gains a measure of respect for the man. Even offers to look at a few blisters on the man's hands a few days later and removes him completely from the game when he refuses politely.)
Doc considers his life choices and wonders what the shit made him sign up for this camel-fucking bullshit? Drain the goddamn canteen. (Only works when they have a legit water ration. Which they currently do not. Because fuck forbid they act like they're in a goddamn war.)
"You look like you'd prefer something stronger in your canteen, brother," Rudy says one afternoon, and Doc drinks because Rudy calling anyone 'brother' is definitely on his list.
"Don't we all?" Doc replies.
Rudy considers it and takes a drink from his own canteen. Doc wonders what the drinking game for himself is. Every time Doc is bitter. Every time Doc tapes someone up. Every time Doc sighs just quietly enough it doesn't carry towards the officer it's aimed at. "Be strong," Rudy says, and Doc can't drink to that. It's too sincere, too honest, too hopeful, and fuck Rudy anyways.
Drink for any combination of "fuck" and "Rudy" in the same sentence. It makes Doc smile as he takes a drink, and he claps Rudy on the shoulder as Rudy walks away. He drinks one more for brotherhood because it's the only thing keeping him standing some days.
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